It gets closer and closer
An end to one year
Without you, my dear
I think of you everyday
Some days grief brings
An abundance of tears
Healing is slowly
Mending my heart
The past has turned
Yellow pages
I will have to build
A life of my own
Until I reach
A heavenly place
Pull me closer and closer with each turn, like the moon my heart yearns.
Yearning for my love's return, I awaken from our years apart.
Apart from each other was making us feel lost, but in his arms at last makes everything feel right.
Pulling me like the stars and moon, I feel all of my love pulling me near.
We awaken in our love, feeling each sensation down to our toes.
Pulling our hearts toward each other, we kiss and become one.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
In the midst of her gathering, I adorned her with my eyes as I see into her eyes a beautiful soul through the window, I can see her heart beating, I smell the fragrance of her blood excreting.
Oh what a beautiful array
My nose come close to her space. She has such a sweet essence.
Closer and closer, I come into her presence, I disregard everything else I look up more into the skies to heaven simultaneously, looking yet still into her eyes to her soul. Spirit smells of jasmine
Oh what a beautiful array
My lips as I walk ever closer to her her grace, her face shines as I walk over yet and still step-by-step closer to her body, her face resonates I touch her lips with my words. I embrace her heart with my spirit. My hands and arms reach up and out word. I am case her velvet body. I embrace, I touch your face with a kiss. For her spirit , soul in body , her bodies are sweet
Oh, what an beloved beautiful array
Her bodies sweet
5/11/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2026
A Dark Image
Kevin Davis 2024
From out of nowhere, I saw an image,
It was standing as still as a statue,
From where I stood, it could be a mirage,
But then it slowly moved with virtue.
My stomach ached, and I was suddenly scared,
My friends and I were playing kick the can,
And I had been hiding in an abandoned yard,
My legs began to cramp. Oh, I should have ran.
As the vision moved closer and closer to me,
I saw a black cape and a large floppy black hat,
Expecting a gun or a knife aimed at me to see,
All I saw was a smiling face and a bright light.
Instead of a goblin or a ghost as I imagined,
The figure was familiar, as it called out my name.
“Kevin, it’s time you came in and get ready for bed.”
Dad, in his work coat and hat, scared me just the same
There’s a storm
Inside my mind
It comes and goes
From time to time
No need to whine
The storm will pass
As quickly as it came
For nothing never ever lasts forever
Does It?
When we pway this game
Some will say I have It for brains
That’s because I’m full of It
Just too smart for my own britches
Inside I have this switch I flip
Made by Aliens or ancestral witches
And when I flip, I crack the whip
And share what I’ve been itchin’ ...
Life presents to each of us
A colorful array of decisions and choices to make
Some will be good, some bad
But all of them most likely will be sins ... sinful
Sinfully delicious like slurping an endless bowl of PoetrySoup
Tugging on each other's toes ... just letting go
Just letting me know whatcha know
While rain is falling outside my rainbow tilted eyes
Time flies ... buzzing me closer and closer to the light
Goodnight.
And so it goes down through the ages
The bigger and taller devour the littler and smaller
Monkeys, bears, fish, tigers, turtles, ants
All species find their food at hand
Only man has to dig, fertilize, plow and water the land
Why, for Heaven’s sake? Well, that’s just it
Heaven is interested in man’s entreaties
He wants man to grow closer and closer to Him
~ as well as eat His Wheaties
15. Ridiculously small but nevertheless persistent ants.
16. It rained in the desert. A dandelion came. So did my neighbor with his hoe.
17. After the floods came the sharks. After the sharks came the crabs. In a few weeks, there’ll be nothing but white sand.
18. Presence. That’s all that’s required.
19. Yes, careless men laugh in board rooms. But careless men have always laughed—like that, with chocking fat tones. Men belittle other men who care. Yes, but hardened men have always done so—like that, with sharpened words. Still, there are Roman board rooms buried in Pompeii—their baths, ashen coffins.
20. I pretended not to hear the woodpecker peck the armored palm. He came closer and closer. “Prescience,” “Presence,” he said.
21. I come with reason, an open mind, and facts. The other side is high on polemics, maintains the status quo at all costs, and dehumanizes me. It is time to change our tactics. (Reminder: Next time, bring fresh horse to the fight.)
Bioluminescent beauty
I am drawn to the hue
I know nothing but the gleam
A pale moonlight blue
I flutter along
Floating on the wind
Enraptured in its gaze
This is all I’ve ever been
A curious creature
Hungry for a path
Maybe it can guide me
To a safe way home, perhaps
Before, I turned to the stars
I got help from the moon
But this light before me
Appeared so usefully soon
Convenience, it is
How kind to me it’s been
A guiding friend
Beckoning me in
Closer and closer
I fly into its haze
It bites and shocks and kills
And then I burn away
The weight that holds me down, unable to move or think clearly. I wish to be free from this pain, but there is no escape. All that waits for me is a void from which there is no return, and each day it pulls me in closer and closer.
I am grateful for our
daughter
granddaughter
great-granddaughter
niece
as we draw closer and closer to the moment of her birth
for all the joy and wonder she’s already given our family
before setting foot upon the Earth.
alone on this desolate beach
this sandcastle sits
empty, like me
a thunderous roar
of emotions
crashing down
threatening existence
its salty spray
taunting my lips
where kisses once lingered
darkened thoughts
weaving in and out
of a clouded mind
a soul lost
somewhere within
heartbeat quickens
like the ocean’s force
within this storm’s rage
Its fury inching
closer and closer
short winded breaths
succumbing
beneath its crash
He was on the path, walking toward me at dusk
at first, I thought it was a man, but my senses began twitching
danger, danger, danger, danger, whispered my internal save machines
It was a sasquatch, and he smelled horrible.
I was too close to him to hide, so I slid off the path
Letting him have the whole path, expecting the worst.
He had not slowed down, his stride was amazingly long.
I watched him get closer and closer.
Would he eat me? Bite my arms? Wring my neck?
He grunted something and kept going.
It sounded a lot like good day.
We met each other in the midst of summer.
Our hearts slowly became closer and closer.
We realized within past three months' time
Our minds see what we have is so sublime.
We first met each other mentally online,
Our hearts recognized how we are divine.
We reciprocated feelings of longing, craving.
Our minds filled with thoughts so loving.
We will spend this year's autumn together.
Our hearts' infatuation becoming deeper.
We'll soothe each other whenever we weep.
Our minds see through each other so deep.
We will see if we shall last past the winter.
Our hearts making our love all the stronger.
We'll hug one last time if you have to leave.
Our minds need to have faith and believe.
OVA Di Lait I Dance In the Dark
Open parade skies blue where R you;
Father love only hurts when it's not honest;
Come closer B in the truth;
Promenade
Dance under the clouds
Over the light
Darkness flees
As I shine bright as nova;
Each step I take closer and closer
Hallelujah
OVA Di Lait I Dance In the Dark
Each step I take closer and closer
Hallelujah
OVA Di Lait I Dance In the Dark
Ova di lait i dance for di dark
open parade skies blue wia r you;
Papa love only hurts wen it's no bi honest;
com closer b for di true;
promenade
dance under di clouds
ova di lait
darkness flees
as i shine bright as nova;
each step i take closer and closer
Hallelujah
ova di lait i dance for di dark
each step i take closer and closer
hallelujah
ova di lait i dance for di dark
4/11/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
the clock pointing to midnight
the walls are coming closer and closer
i’m going mad
my biggest fears begins to rule over my mind
scared of my own thoughts
scared of voices that tells me to die
i would put my hands on ears
and close my eyes
the paper says “i’m depressed”
stuck between haunting midnights
a fight between life and death
have no clue where i shall seek shelter
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